Maple Avenue Evening High School - Progress Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Palm Canyon

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John C. Abbott J. E. Timmons, Managing Editor Lucy J. Hummel Head of Diamatic Dept.

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MAPLE AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL 540 MAPLE AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. K Telephone 823111 Sadie C. Atherton, Principal-Co-ordinator. A Vocational High School For Men' in the Trades. Specializing in Trade Extension Work. ra e Extension Training The Why and l'low Of It By SADIE C. ATHERTON HE unsatisfactory condition prevailing in the shops and building trades as regards the labor situation is the result of the unscientific manner in which the matter has been handled for years back. The employer has not, until recently, made any effort to build up a system to adequately replace the Qld apprenticeship system long since vanished. Perhaps the California employer has been even more lax in this respect than others. With the exception of a few midsummer months there formerly was a steady influx of mechanics from other climes and the employer could, as a rule, pick up j ourneymen for a Wage but slightly in excess of that of a helper and so worried not at all about the labor sup- ply or scientific organization and classification of apprentice or mechanic. The War made a change and the restriction of immigration has had its effect, but the outstanding reason for the chaos which exists in industry, particularly in the building industry, maybe 'traced to the lack of a work- able system for the training of the necessary young men to take the place of those who have been called away or who drop out for one reason or an- other. - i Wage increases and demoralization of labor forces came with the war. Men without special training or experience forced themselves- into certain -Page Fifteen